Haqiqatul-Wahi (The Philosophy of Divine Revelation) — Page 517
REMEDY FOR PLAGUE-CHARĀGH DIN'S DECLARATION WHEN AHMADI 517 watering hole. The proof of this is present in the Holy Quran and other holy Scriptures. Here I also want to make it clear that the Blessed Epoch, which has been so exalted, is the seventh millennium in the age of the world, which is destined to see the establishment of the divine kingdom in the world, and of peace and reconciliation like the day of the Sabbath. It has also been proven to me that this century constitutes the end of the sixth millennium. Therefore, whatever dramatic and wide-ranging changes are to take place in preparation for the spiritual resurrection shall come to pass in this very century. Thus, in preparation for this comprehen- sive and grand spiritual resurrection, God is pleased to make arrangements of two kinds: gracious and glorious. The gracious kind means that—in conformity with His age-old practice― just as He has been raising and commissioning His chosen ones for the guidance and reformation of the world in every age, in the present age, too, He has raised and appointed an elect of His own with the status of an Imam. His honoured name is Hadrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian. The purpose is that the world, under his guidance and by submitting to him, may be able to produce in itself the light of that holy spiritual transformation which is the condition precedent to the prepa- ration of spiritual resurrection so that it may be found worthy of entering and sharing that peaceful and blessed kingdom of God that has been mentioned above and into which no unholy and mischievous person can enter. The other strategy of God Almighty is one of glory and wrath. It is symbolized by the plague and famine. The purpose is that those who fail to reform themselves by benefiting from the gracious arrangements may be warned or destroyed by this wrathful strategy. As is the age-old divine practice, Prophets have come for every spiritual revolution in the past. Whenever the people crossed the limit in disbelieving and rejecting the